Yesterday, people discovered something that shook them to their core: Justin Bieber is a self-involved idiot.
The reactions range from “I loved him so much and how could he turn out to be a jerk!” to “He is just a little child who, at 19, cannot be expected to have an ounce of grey matter.”
Want to know why there are so many immature people around? Because immaturity is expected and celebrated:
A 19-year-old kid who’s had little opportunity to do anything with his time but be a pop sensation for the last five years doesn’t have a chance.
Oh, poor little baby! He didn’t have enough chances and opportunities! And now he tripped and has a bobo! Let’s all feel massively sorry for the child.
I remember how shocked I was when a 6-feet-something burly student said to me something like, “I talked to the other kids and they told me. . .” I had to ask who the “kids” were because I honestly didn’t understand he was referring to his classmates.
At 19, I was a married woman, making a living in a very harsh economy of the post-Soviet bandit wars. I would have never thought of myself as “a kid.”
Did you see yourself as a kid at 19?
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And CNN considers this news???? That’s pretty low of them. So much for journalistic integrity. Back to watching Sherlock on Netflix, something that’s actually worth my time.
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CNN has become such a cesspool. Not that it was all that phenomenal to begin with. 😦
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CNN doesn’t want to be as liberal as MSNBC, nor as conservative as Faux News, so CNN is as insignificant as possible…
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Have you read Anne Frank’s diary? I have and recommend it. From this diary, one can see how smart and introspective Anne was. Surely, she wouldn’t fall for trash songs of B-thing. And I don’t have to listen to 1 song of his to understand it, somebody so stupid and shallow can hardly contribute something meaningful.
Before reading, I thought it was like his previous comment about abortions. Never expected to see this. Kid, not kid, at 15 people are supposed to know better.
// A 19-year-old kid who’s had little opportunity to do anything with his time but be a pop sensation for the last five years
I loved Harry Potter. Books, movies, all. So I followed actors a bit. Daniel Radcliffe was no less famous than B, yet it didn’t prevent him from being mature: older actors (he mentioned their help) and, I suppose, his parents too worked to help Daniel develop work ethic and prevent all fame from going into his head too much. Guess B’s anti-choice mother is a crap parent in general.
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Irrespective of what Bieber’s music is like (and I obviously wouldn’t know what it is like), only a really conceited self-involved idiot would make an encounter with the tragedy of Anne Frank about himself. Frank was a victim of genocide and left a very poignant record of what was going on. Millions of people have wept over her diary. And all this freakazoid can see is an excuse to glorify himself at her expense? What a loser, jeez.
And many people have so lost all sense of what is or isn’t acceptable that they actually go on to analyze whether Frank would have been a Bieber fan: http://studentactivism.net/2013/04/14/on-anne-frank-in-defense-of-justin-bieber/
Like this even remotely mitigates the inappropriate and disgusting nature of Bieber’s comment.
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I had a similar shocking experience as you when I was maybe 19 and heard someone else my age referring to people older than us as “grown-ups,” while we, I suppose, were children. I do find it difficult to think of myself as fully adult for a variety of reasons (although it’s becoming easier), but I certainly wouldn’t call myself or one of my peers a kid.
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I think it’s less a function of age and more one of profession.
IME performers tend to be self-involved and unpleasnt to be around. That’s okay, if they deliver the goods on stage/screen i don’t care if they’re nice or smart people since I don’t regard performers as any kind of role model and wonder at those who do.
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Could regarding performers as a role model be a sign of seeing money and fame, no matter how, as primary goals in life? If one wants to have role models, why not choose some of the saints, scientists or people, who made a difference, like Luther King? Why not national war heroes? Or, if one desires power, Golda Meir / Margaret Thatcher / some man ?
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By “some man” I meant Obama / etc.
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“Why not national war heroes? ‘
– It is much much healthier to worship Justin Bieber than somebody who killed people exceptionally well. And the reason why Justin Bieber is so popular with teenage girls is that he offers an alternative vision of masculinity of the kind that has been leaving men enraged and women enamored for centuries.
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It’s how contemporary Western types are, when they encounter anything deep or complex, isn’t it? It’s like, “Oh, a woman trying to say something! How can I use this to boost my image? I bet nobody else understands a word she’s saying either, but it might be of some use if I do’t need to make much effort with it.”
I’ve known men in their very mature years who also ‘think’ like this.
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Given some of the anti-semetic crap that has come out of the mouths of certain celebrities, I’m relieved this was all he said. No Nazi salutes. No calling Jews nasty names. He hopes she would have liked his music. Not an appropriate thing to say, kind of a baffling reaction to a tragic story, but refreshingly innocuous. This probably just shows that I have low, loooowww standards when it comes to celebrity behavior.
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I actually had the same reaction for the same reason. Low expectations. . .
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“Did you see yourself as a kid at 19?”
24 is the new 18 IMO.
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At 19, I had no identity — either child or adult. The world was a confusing place.
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I thought of myself as a young adult. Certainly not as a kid! I was a student at university not a primary schoolgirl!
Beiber’s an idiot. What a surprise…
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“Did you see yourself as a kid at 19?”
No, but Bieber could not be a kid, so he tries to be one…
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I am so completely with you on this one, At 19 I was already considering family and at 23 I was half way to becoming a dad. In that entire time, I at least respected history and had respect for the lessons and legacies left by the previous generation. What Beiber did, is careless and irresponsible.
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